The Futurist Cookbook

wtf I hate pasta now

Marinetti's futurist cookbook is fearless and radical. The challenges that Futurists faced with art/music/dance were mere hurdles compared to the struggle of changing a country's palate. While he would mock the the phrase "don't fix what isn't broken" his vacuous destruction of taste and focus on aesthetics of food was a ripple in Italy and the world's menus. Even if you never try and of the recipes in this you must appreciate his passion.. or jetfuel for dynamic, unsurmountable, boundary breaking ideas that could only be fenced in by the universal love for what actually tastes good.

225. First published in 1932, a collection of essays, exhortations, scenarios, and recipes for food of the future relates the artistic movement of Futurism to food and challenges typical nineteenth-century Italian fare. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was an Italian poet and editor and the founder of the Futurist movement. He hated pasta. It represented "the Italian addiction to nostalgia and tradition."

A "serious joke", overturning "with ribald laughter everything 'food' and 'cookbooks' held sacred."

futurist forumulas for restaurants and quisibeve
(The vague quantities given in many of these formulas, far from constituting a matter of concern, should on the contrary stimulate the imagination of Futurist cooks, for fortuitous mistakes often lead to new dishes.)

This is no ordinary cookbook!

eu 2.000; Pont. 3.800

The woman who wrote the introduction--Leslie Chamberlain--has an interesting appreciation on her website: www.lesleychamberlain.co.uk/books.htm